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...cutbacks would come slowly. Once WPB had believed that big-scale reconversion would get under way within three months after the war ended in Europe...
...taken, penicillin promptly turned up in the blood. When unprotected penicillin was given to twelve pneumonia patients, they got well just as fast as they would have on injections. Only hitch: dosage must be five times the amount required when the drug is administered by injection. But WPB announced last week that there will soon be plenty of penicillin for everybody...
...lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons...
Despite these glowing results, WPB has found the going hard. Most labor unions, notably the powerful United Automobile Workers-C.I.O., oppose incentive wages as a general system, suspecting that they are the hated speedup. Many an employer is also suspicious, fearing that unions might use incentive plans to get a foot in the door of management...
Even without such obstacles, WPB has no illusions that incentive wages are a cure-all for the overall manpower shortage. There are too many industries where the product is redesigned so often, as a result of battle experience, that there is not time enough to set up average-production standards. Nevertheless, WPB is dead certain of one thing: incentive wages could boost production in many more plants...